Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Little Oil

On January 2nd a single trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange pushed the price of oil to the psychologically freighted $100 a barrel. That trade made newspaper headlines or the front pages of newspapers throughout the world.

The trade itself was for a single futures contract of 1000 barrels of crude. The price quotation on the exchange prior to the fateful $100 trade was $99.53 so that the when that one contract at $100/bbl crossed the ticker, it jumped the market price of crude oil everywhere by nearly one half percent or 47 cents per barrel to be exact. At that moment that was the price on which all transactions of crude oil were based. The next trade on the exchange, that is the price at which the $100 contract could have been immediately resold, would have incurred a trading loss of $600 to the trader who executed the trade, understood to be one Mr. Richard Arens. Thus Mr. Arens, by being the first trader to have closed a $100/bbl trade on the NYMerc purchased a slice of immortality at a cost of but $600.

With all the stuff going on you might have missed this little tidbit. If this one man can make such a huge change, what does that say for the power of BIG money boys to send it to where it is today?

A little speculation goes a looooooong way!

At any rate we are the real losers, these rich goomers have all the money they need and so what if we do not. We are but mere scabs on the festering sore that is the financial system, for the rich, by the rich, to serve the rich.

58 comments:

...but now I think I should just open up this "Muddy Ford" Holiday Celebration ale brewed by one of my ER docs (Jolly is his real name!)...get the hops levels up to "theraputic" and climb the ladder to take the Christmas lights off of the double-wide Mansion.

DEN, I have heard ever since I was in my twenties that the stockmarket can be manipulated. The powerbrokers treat the little investors as pawns. This is one reason why people will have a difficult time accumulating wealth. Money can be made but it is a few cases that gives people the belief that they can be one of the few cases.

Personally, I believe that Hillary is the best candidate of the three - Hillary, Obama, and Edwards. Obama is a fad but unless Nazi America wakes up he will be the party's nominee in three to four weeks. It will be too late for any corrections. Once Obama has to answer real questions and address real problems, we will see the real Obama. BUT, IT WILL BE TOO LATE!!!

Carey -- no I don't mind. In fact, I said this on another blog and got the (meaningless editor's choice red star) for it:

Independent? I wish the press corp would be INDEPENDENT!

The biggest losers in this horse race are the traveling press corps who impose their friggin' petty opinions on the American electorate, dissing candidates they don't like because of their coiffed hair or imagined shrillness, doing everything possible to American Idolize this most serious presidential election.

There's one caucus under our belts, and the media act as though it's all over except the acceptance speech.

Boy, those press folks must really need self-validation the way they maul viable candidates, then congratulate themselves on their brilliant analyses once they drive the American sheeple into submission by their incessant opinions on who fucked up on one response to one question in one debate on one day, totally ignoring all those other days in a candidate's life.

Dang! If you don't bottle up yourself and sell it, Micki, I will! Micksters hit the nailhead AGAIN!

The biggest losers in this horse race are the traveling press corps who impose their friggin' petty opinions on the American electorate, dissing candidates they don't like because of their coiffed hair or imagined shrillness, doing everything possible to American Idolize this most serious presidential election.

Did anyone hear Air America yesterday. Goodness, the crap. It's all about the press, they think they're the stars. They have press row and they hang out and yuck!

How can a community help neighbors in trouble? Let’s look at the ways that parishioners at St. Philomena’s in Chicago provide food and clothes to hundreds of needy people thanks to the generosity of many.

Their food pantry serves an average of 400 people twice a week, offering food such as meat, rice, canned and baked goods. Individuals collect, bag and distribute groceries.

People prune their closets to provide clothing for adults and children.

Neighbors take pledges for each mile walked in the annual five-mile “Hunger Walk” along Lake Michigan.

In communities small and large across the country neighbors help neighbors. Could people in your village, town, or city use your help today?

DEN says that stupidity is preventable and he is right. Yet, I find that in Nazi America stupidity is not preventable. I look to Stephen Lendman's article, "A Culture of Violence," to offer some credence for my words. Violence is embedded and imprinted on our souls. Violence is the norm and the way of life in Nazi America.

Do really know how hard it is for me to try and be a good person? Violence is Nazi America and it is a major part of our character and personality.

Do you really know how hard it is for me to not put on my jackboots and stump someone's face? Thoughts of stumping someone's face are difficult to set aside.

Howdy Folks: Bootboy here and I just returned from my 85 mile loop breaking ice off the cattle troughs. Them cows do get to yearnin fer water even when its 10 below in the late afternoon. A sufferin beast needs comfort or a bullet dependin on how hungry you and your are. Hey it looks like we be havin a black man runnin this country, I say its better than any woman who is all hat and no cattle. Y'all take care, got to feed the horses now.

Ok Microsoft users, ther might be a problem with a security update sent today dated 1/9/08, it shut me down to the nubs, I could not boot at all!

If you update these two updates you might see the "no bootable stuff found" (or similar) Hold down the on off button until your computer shuts off. Then push the on/off again and start tapping the F-8 key, it will enter the 'safe mode' screen, use the arrow keys down to 'last known good configuration' hit enter, you should get the Windows startup screen. WRITE THIS DOWN NOW cause you won't be able to read it then.

Oh yea, forgot one more thing, if you have trouble like I did, when you get Windows back, go to 'Control Panel', 'Add/Remove Programs' click the little box that says 'Show Updates', scroll down to the 1-9-08 updates and uninstall them little rascals before shutting your computer off by clicking 'Remove'.

Turn off automatic updates at the bottom of 'Windows Security Center' window too, to keep them from nagging.

I didn't notice till I read Den's post about the Windows update, but my system has downloaded the update automatically and the yellow icon is sitting there down by my clock. I haven't installed 'em yet. After x-amount of time, it starts popping up on my screen saying it'll install itself if I don't click on "later"... but it keeps popping up every 15-fkn minutes and pisses me off. It hasn't started that YET tho. I'll cross my fingers when I do install 'em, and let y'all know if I had any probs like Den did.

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